This sister of Alexanders is not sought without leaue is not defiled without vertue hath her louer no lesse comely in parts and features In Aegypt it is written were great store of Crocodiles there the dogges for thirst driuen to drink did euer so lap in Nilus as they were euer remouing This iest was brokē vpō Anthony after the Mu tine flight that he caried himself like the dogs of Egypt Shal we then haue receiued this Nation with applause honored thē in our high Counsell of the Kings estate and of the estate of the Kingdome admitted them dignities admitted them honours in titles in possessions receiued them with loue into our houses crepte at their knees in the English Court haue put our money into their pockets put them into our fortes strengthes Castles and shall wee now make meū and tun̄ the Scottish the English our selues thēselues Nay rather let vs speake as heartily as the kinde man did in Terence Hos nisi mors nobis adimet nemo Let vs in name and vertue be the same let the good of both ioyne together and the good of both put downe the ill of either Some who neuer iudged aright what it was to liue so vnited may rashly say they had rather dye then bee vnited He was but an young man in Terence who vsed that perswasion for his affection onely emori malim but an olde man gaue this counsell out of long experience First learne what it is to liue if then that life displease when thou knowest it thou mayest bestowe this on thy selfe which thou now chusest Plato framed a definition of a man that he was a liuing creature going vpon two feete and without feathers which definition was mocked by shewe of a Cocke his feathers pulled off But the Authour of the tractate of the vnion hath giuen this man if you will hence deriue him foure legges to walke on So strongly therefore vnderset hee aduentured that discourse knowing belike that the perswasion of iust thinges pleased the Gods and that the people of Athens would not kill Phocion if they repented a little Mildly they yet proceed for they cal his iudgemēt his wit rather giuing a backward commendation of his labour spent then the cause vse of his arguments in behalfe thereof Sure hee was some great Councellor who gaue the King that aduice that he should not liue out of his Countrey wherein he was borne and from it that was not to let his Numen be felt in it together What though hee hath pleasured many of that Nation ought the well doing of a few be his onely care Is the rewarding of his seruants all that falles into a Kings studie for his cōmon wealthes good haue we had so much benefit by their comming and shall we deny them share of that we enioy by them They haue bred vs a King they haue brought him safe they haue brought him euery way perfect of nature good learning great vertues many of issue fruitfull and on his head a Crowne before he came here Matched most royally for the qualitie of her bloud gallantly for her person and aboue all for the goodnesse residing in her royal self her happines in her sweet issue descended from her And shall we now vse Scotland as an olde scabbard or a Kings cradle Vmditius a bond slaue in Rome for preuenting only by relation vnto a Cōsul the treasons of the sons of Treuitelij and of Brutus was not onely made free but a law made for the freedome of all bondslaues called Lex vindicia by which euer afterwards none of them could be taken by force or haue violence offered to them by allowance How much rather ought we to enact some memorable record vnto posteritie whereby this great blessing from that Nation may be acknowledged vnto it the rather they hauing demeaned themselues so honorably as to giue vs iust satisfaction of their valours An excellent cause now God will haue vs friends why we should loue entirely This is a course fitter for vs to embrace then our strengths refused by other aduersities to hope of our succours But now rather to speake a little in behalfe and for vse of our owne cōmon-wealth then to perswade their particular good in it As our lawes are the best or we must say so of them who liue vnder them of all Nations whereby our kingdome is gouerned so the ciuill lawes being no such strangers vnto them somewhat would soone be established whereby we might get the benefit of theirs by the assent of ours to the cōsent of both Which while it is in indeuor they by precise looking into ours wil get reformed some abuses crept in by time custome or misse-interpretation such as my Lord Chancellor in his integritie shewed daily and diuers of the graue Iudges and chiefely the chiefest of them as oportunities serue for conscience sake do amend as they apply them and but by such an occasion as this will hardly euer be moted vpon Of this argument for agreement of both lawes except I be deceiued a friend of mine and worthie to bee yours hath very lately verie shortly written comparing the Grandes the Titles the rules and right vse of both as his occasion led him so learnedly so fully and so experiencedly together as the two common Wealthes may soone bee taught that there is nothing disagreeing in essence betweene them nothing of the ones substance wanting to the other the termes and practises onely hauing giuen the shewe of difference hitherto But I cannot iudge whether hee will bee iudged woorthie any great imployments since Hanno was but vnthankfully dealt withall who first tamed a Lion It were pitie a Common-Wealthes man should haue more encouragement in his trauell then his conscience of well doing To returne to my purpose if for many seene benefits which wee cannot chuse but reape besides the satisfaction of our Soueraigne no way were motiue to a heartie Subiect there should ingrowe any inconueniences the Kinges desire standing in heede of the Acte Trimolius the true Corinth would take part against his owne brother for the good of the Common-Wealth But these doubtes stands like the Mountaines Anaxagoras was asked whether at the last they would not bee water whose aunswere was in time they would Tempus edax rerum c. Time doth worke what no man knoweth in the faithfull Turtle Doue Martial was very angrie with a fellowe who would needes knowe thinges vppon supposalles as how hee would behaue himselfe if hee were rich and shutting him off with this aunsweare if men can foretell how thinges shall succeede how wilt thou behaue thy selfe if thou becommest a Lion Quenquam posse putas c. Isocrates was troubled with the vncertaintie of the time how hee might behaue himselfe when hee might haue a boxe on the eare for then and not else hee would weare a Helmet This cause great Cities and your friendes from Story writers flying away so wilde sits now as gently by vs
can not be vnpleasing that Amasis King of Egypt made vti singuli apud praesides prouinciae ostenderent vnde viuerent That is in England on capitall head of many manifolde vices when men may liue by what meanes they can onely answearing vnto publicke accusations whereas how they get what they spende how they spende what they get how they outface meaner Magistracie how they blinde greater in causes of danger how they find many and the Common-wealth few friendes how they shift causes and the Iudge neuer heates of them for these how much God is angrie their courses how easie it is in beginngs to preuent if counsaile of Counsellours finde other thinges more vrgent to their wisedomes I remember what I wish the Common-wealth should haue cause to thanke them for These people will goe as neare Iustice and Lawes and scape them as Domitian could shoote neare through by a Boyes fingers and misse them This reuerend counsell for hauing liued in Coutts may they be more honored then to be reuiled in Woodes So let them know their seruices rewarded in lyuing that dead they be not abused by the lyuing And if they may be amongst vs who would be wise like them let vs not put them from amongst vs who haue more experience and haue had more priuitie then wee Zenophones Colophonius who was called Homeromastixe in lamentation of his pouertie told a King of Cecely that he was scarce able to keepe two Seruantes Yet quoth the King he whom you rayle vpon feedeth 10000. being dead so are worthy men by meane ones defaced so pratchantnesse knowes not it is sawcie so come faultie humours to be vnpunished because not seene and not seene because not regarded In Rome it is written Rutilius and Scaurus had petition for a Consulship and at last Rutilius gaue way to Scaurus Scaurus accused Rutilius of Canuace because in Rutilius his Tables was written A. F. P. R. which Scaurus did interpret as signifying done by the fayth of Publius Rutilius actum fide Publij Rutilij as if Rutilius had corrupted the voyces and Scaurus could not haue been made Consull without Rutilius had renounced vnto him But Rutilius made this interpretation ante factum postea relatum that first it was had afterwards restored as if Scaurus had by his name framed his Office and he had been but the pronouncer of his reputation Caius Caninius a Romaine Knight being on the part of Rufus notwithstanding held that neither interpretation was true vpon those Letters but that they imported Aemilius fecit plectitur Rutilius Aemilius did it and Rutilius suffered for it that was tooke the repulse But I thinke both then for neither are heere now In that time where was the curtesie passed betwixt Largius and Caelius when they two spent the day so in commending one another either for others worth to be elected Dictators that scarce either of them could be appoynted on the second day of their choyce Where was then that humanitie which Pompey shewed who being appoynted vnto Metellus his charge because Metellus was elder and more noble in glorie would not accept his preferment appoynted vnto him vnlesse Metellus would desire his companie in taking share of his care This case had much other pleading when it was and howsoeuer Rutilius was stucke vnto yet Cicero gaue not all to that speaker but in decision of the cause hauing iudicially delyuered turned his countenaunce vpon a worthy man of his fauour concluding directly in the behalfe of Scaurus More did not Tully in any day shew himselfe maister of his eares nor better at any time commaunde his tongue to vtter his iudgement Yet was that tryall onely brought in to take experience of duetie fully necessarie for greater causes soone after to be propounded This onely being like Alcibiades Dogge sent through the Cittie of Athens with his tayle cut off vpon purpose That as it was to try what woonderors were there in that body so this to discerne whether free tongues were walking or not walking in your free Cities But howsoeuer had Angustus his Iudgement been helde as good as Claudius his benefite the decision had found authoritie not the authoritie decision Then might the Souldier haue come to Caesar to aske his rewarde of pleasuring him in a fitter time then after he had lost one of his eyes at Munda But it may be in times foregoing it hath been thought that cleane obseruance was more worth then holy duetie to be honored rather skilfully then deuoutly coli scite quam sancte Yet doubt I that word Cleane had drunke too lately in the Low Countries and signified rather litle in the scite then mannerly in the obseruaunce Or else as it befell Martiall would haue his rule of louing accept Familiaritie but admit no reuerence Tu vis coli Sexte volebam amore Sed si te colo Sexte non amabo If otherwise which I well beleeue and you great Cities may happely heare of that not want of particuler duetie but care of generall good makes refusall of that for the Countries cause wherein a Kinges commaund had otherwise readely preuayled ouer his Subiectes while the euent of the ones desire the others refusall stood vpon vncertaine successes and the fathers care might be thought impartiall touching his owne lawfull Children though issued from diuers venters what Vigil could not scite Virgill what Watchman could not discerne day then in view then to follow his collours with Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro Nor could it be sayd O socij neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum for of the contrarie wee haue had experience lamentable of this which would haue yeelded comfort such hath been our vnhappinesse though the Histories can tell you how sought neuer occasion to any could wee take Better directions then happie directions men can not receaue such as either are affected to be followed for loue by hope or men are wonne to imbrace by reason vpon ground Him examine by his owne remember his life past so blessedly runne through so mischieffously attempted take view of his estate present of our hopes of blessednesse by him and thereby frame coniecture how fortunate his Highnesse may be in these his desires not withstood but submitted to by those who must leese liberties as deare as life thereby And should you not take him Kingly but Philosophically the rule for his condition fittes him as his Scepter for a King becomes him A body strong fortunes ritch the heart stoute and braines learned Milesius thought to be the seate of happinesse Plato he platted fiue kindes of Felicities good Counsell good Health good Fortune good Reputation good and falsely esteemed but neuer before other louers of Wisedome loued them better then Philosophers aboue all Goodes Goodes I might add to make these goodes better as greater for their qualitie maketh not their price more then their quantitie aduaunceth their reputation euen goodes hanging vpon Ropes Of which kinde to leaue the Kinges Maritine riches
reason applied to any thing prooues the affection loues the sight beholdes and offices perfourme their functions not alwaies as order leades but sometimes best so vsed as occasion serues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the greekes call Punctum temporis which who so hittes if either he do it suddenly O quantum est subitis casibus ingenium or necessarily sapit necessitati qui probè se accommodat et est rerum diuinarum atque humanarum conscius Can any perswade you who do the like honour to the King how vnlike soeuer this dayes garments are to yesterdayes roabes that the difference of an enstilement shall make him lose the honor of his place the reputation of his nation True it is where persons were vnknown kingdomes vnheard of Titles should haue reputatioÌ„s as their wordes could signifie but then they must so begin as weapons were first found out if you will beleeue Horace which was when men went together by the eares first vnguibus et pugnis dein fustibus atque it a porrò pugnabant armis quae post fabricauer at vsus In this case where the kingdomes accompt cannot bee blemished and almost the Kinges woonder hath bene euery where euen adored in that age let those who like not to giue him his due in a session or otherwise find then he knowes what he is now which god graunt alwayes to send may encrease vpon him Slightly as I heare of argumentes tossed amongst you so gladly desire I to settle you touching theÌ„ leauing with you my protestation of reuerence humble and loue faithfull towards all such as with vnderstanding affection staÌ„d vnder any burthen for the good and honor of theyr mother earth and her children Against which if for flattery to the Scotish I shall seeme to haue written let my brybe be iudged of som of them hauing part of my liuing others hauing torne in sunder my reputation yet since my bane came from the English they trespassed not in wisedom to take aduantage therof And that mine hands may appear the cleaner as yet my dread Soueraignes haue not don ought for me of much I dare boldly yet prostrately auow I haue well deserued both fauor of lawes of Court and Country would assist me in right to Yet doubt I not theyr royall natures nor misdoubt mine own patience knowing it eyther well to becom my duety to expect their princely pleasures or otherwise ready to credite their iudgements touching me rather then to giue scope to mine owne hopes of aduancement or good from my Soueraignes But all else set apart and freelie to deliuer mine impartiality in this cause so safe I hold this for vs to obey our King in so comely to welcome the nation with so politike to close at this infolded imbrace as I suspect not but all will be best being best vsed and of the rest let them rather doubt then we feare Many meÌ„s turns haue bene already serued the Kings owne comfort is yet in petition he ioyes not so much to be a King for his pleasure as to be a good King for the states weal. His Maiesty takes now the first opportunitie the flyes are now not so busye holesome counsel hath poured balme vpon opportunity in asking magnificence in graunting Yet are many the pretences may draw Kinges to be bouÌ„tiful of which if you haue not elsewhere takeÌ„ good view you may here iudge of some being parte of many thousaÌ„ds Kings somtims are euen forced to graÌ„t not so much for their desire to bestowe as their shame to denye Non tam studio quidem concedendi quà m verecundia negandi Some haue vsed this argument you know what my need requires Scis quid mihi opus sit when there was more need of Hoc opus est subito fias ut sidere mutus that they had wayted as dombe as the stars do on the sun Some sayd Regi hoc dare noÌ„ conuenit a royall King must make his gift magnificent When as Nec Cynios accipere deâ—ebat Beggers should haue ben no chusers More suters fall on vpon Kings one who for his wisdom quia rarissimè another for his conceit quia iucundisimè a third who for his attendance quia tuÌ„ praÌ„det et coenat cum AlexaÌ„dro videtur seek for gifts certain Calisthenesses aduised by Aristotle Others can often remember their seruices praying rewards to be bestowed for those causes and for that in no fortune they had ben from the Kings person Sylas from Agrippa Some haue asked as more learned then their fellowes for hauing giueÌ„ causes of things as why the lioÌ„s deuoured not Daniel Some for limping if the king limped haukers huÌ„ters the fashioÌ„ of the Ethiopes Some for sitting late vp by him in the night and praysing his royall Children Cato the younger from Diotarus Som must take lest they should be vnciuill in refusing Zenocrates from Alexander And they must be giueÌ„ to to try their good manners in accepting Som for their softnes must beg hauing no fingers as may be supposed on theyr haÌ„ds therfore driueÌ„ to wear their rings in their ears the seruaÌ„ts of Penus in Penulus in Plaut Som requited for their preseÌ„ts Siloson with Samum from Darius Some must buy because they offer deare multis precibus with much suite Som must be giueÌ„ to though naughty persoÌ„s Mores miseratus non homineÌ„ for pitty not of the man but of his maÌ„ners Som bouÌ„tifully dealt with though not froÌ„ a kings hart noÌ„ homini sed humanitati a gift bestowed vpoÌ„ curtesie not maÌ„hood Al must be graÌ„ted by a king for that he is as a god vpoÌ„ the earth Dixi quòd dii estis saith the Psalmist I haue saide yee are gods And that is to imitate god to be bountifull Petitions were long since growne so vsual as Seraphion would not strike the bal to AlexaÌ„der in the TeÌ„nis-court vnles he begd it himself Non praebes saith AlexaÌ„der Immo noÌ„ petis saith SeraphioÌ„ Yet in som times the gifts were but such as Lupus gaue to Martiall wheÌ„ as he writ that he had a whole cuÌ„try bestow'd vpoÌ„ him lesse then was one in the bowpots in a corner of your neater CitizeÌ„s windows such a country as in which a Cabbage would make a whole wood ouer which a Grashoppers wings a tent which to an Ant was but a daies feeding and might be crowned with a Rose bud in which were two herbes onely growing wherin a Cucumber could not staÌ„d vpright nor a Snake ly at ease which one Mole could dig vp in a day one Mouse destroy as fearfully as the Calidonian Boare hath many other descriptions in his epigram to Lupus expressed concluding that he had rather haue had a dinner then no deneer prandium quà m praedium Nam quo tempore mihi praedium dedisti mallem mihi prandium dedisses In others gifts had good fortune as wheÌ„ Aristippus sayd of Dyonisius the younger That the king was safely bountiful and magnificent because he saw Plato send
him back his gifts againe In others they had good vse as when Fabius Maximus bestowed on Marsus a valiāt souldier no very great gifts to keep in very great spirits The antient boone of Leuidense none begs which was a warme but light yet cōmon garment Many now craue in many places not so much for want of sufficient as because though they know some haue more then inough yet they would bee loath to haue lesse then theyr fellowes striuing as Otacilius did to equall Torquatus of whom it is written that as the ox burst the toade so the one of them would split in emulation of the other vt bos ranam rumperat olim sic puto Torquatus rumpet Otacilium Milesius was wont to say there was no such way to make a man quietly suffer aduersity as the knowledge that his enemy was in worse prosperity and think you that emulatiō in this works not as much as in the other malice For this cause did the brethren of Ioseph sell the son of Iacob vnto the Arabian merchants For the other did Casselius find out that a Pyne tree nut was an apple if it were to be thrown at Vatinius his enimies head Horace bestoweth much description vpon those who wold haue none so great as thēselues and tels the tale of the toade vituli pede pressus who told her dam when she saw her swell to be as great as the calfe Non si te ruperis inquit Par eris But though it were vnfit in kings causes Martials counsell to Flaccus was vnhappy which aduised to keep that to himselfe which hee had purposed amongst others when as the offence of many who should not get was dangerous the bestowing vpon al burdensom Demeruisse duos votum est offendere plures vix tutum Cunctis mittere dona graue Our Soueraigne as his goodnesse is great so his rewards his gifts his aduancements haue not bin smal Tully had not so great cause to brag of his Quaestorship well discharged in Sicily when he came home to Rome as some giue shew of our Soueraigns bounty who passe from one of you to another Howsoeuer it may truly be said it hath rather bin a Royall king then an yeares Magistracy yet performed hath aduanced Tully to salute Roome so glorified from Sicily so enuyed at home Take it not ill then Tully if no body at Roome woulde talke to thee of thy Quaestorship of the news of thy cariage wherin thou thoughtst to haue found all men full And why should not such gifts as they cary be bestowed by him who hauing long staied for power ought now only to affect glory and good will Priùs said Antigonus mihi opus erat potentia nunc verò gloria et beneuolentia What other humane indeauour hath this worthy king more seriously taken in hand then the benifiting of his the countries friends the recōcilemēt agreemēt of the enemies of both whereof the one as they were made vp partely by his loue to his country his desire to honour it to aduāce hir faln nobility to requite such as had deserued best of her to giue many more then theyr own since the country had so gladly giuen him his own partly by those he brought with him who had some of them bin rescuers of his life som extraordinary assistants of his estate others such as he could not but reward here for seruices performed there where memory was the rewarde hee cold properly giue was all in their honors they would willingly take So enimies to kings do oftnest grow either by wāt of what ambition made them desire or for lacke of what expenses had drawn into waste Els some somtimes affect what blind zeal makes them think fit or fals iudgement rather false harts will not let them see pertinent proper But as his Maiesty hath no more then was fit rewarded the first vnlesse they can say to him as the yong man saith in Terence Nescis quid mihi obtigerit you cannot tell Sir what hath lighted vpon me So hath he mercifully spared the other insomuch that he hath neither cōfiscated them as Tiberius the Emperor did the kings of Spaine Sicily Greece ob leue impudensque calumniarū genus for any light or shamefull kind of slander nor fined them as Cassius did Sylla Calphurnius from one of whom he took quinquagies sestertiū frō the other sexagies Himselfe being for any riot he is addicted vnto as free frō wāt either of ought belonging to himself or for his couetousnes frō need of any thing others possesse But either at pe titions of faire Ladies none offenders or for som respects laid before him by his wiser Nobility either else for pure inclinatiō vnto mercy hath benefited Sylla been steward of his estate kept others vp who would haue kept others downe Thanks to so high discerning which found that when Soueraigntie could not represse liberty benefits could more strictly then treason take it prisoner Nor hath hee yet inflicted so much as exile vpon any of them knowing it a banishment that they forsooke his iustice And that he detaineth them is out of his mercy for boulder were they and of better countenāce could they be when each had his discontent then now when they haue proofe in themselues the world sees it apparātly how vnworthily they had placed it Marcellus the Ciuilian wrighting vpon a booke of the Digestes shewes three kindes of banishment either from certaine places or from al places besides certain either else a cōfining to some Iland And though all these be vpon them yet they had nothing of this punishment did not one certaine place restraine them may they be confined to an Ilād if further mercy shall deliuer further occasion shal not imploy them that Iland so prepared the one by their Soueraignes grace the other in his prudēce they are not only like to be inlarged to a country but find their country inlarged to them Touching whome pittie is it they rather were not free for this argument then bound by the other offēce There are of them whose births courages blouds experiences and conditions as they were noble before they lost them so nobly could they haue spoken of this argumēt I hope by this time haue found much cause to bee much forward hereabout Yet is there one of thē wold bring much griefe vnto me though I wish him all good in his weldoing if he or his abettor his Steward or Protector or his faction so many as are of the olde haunce for his cause should be able to preiudice me more for compassion then I could draw safegard to my selfe by refraining euill desart laboring good merit But howsoeuer these some of them much vnhappy before in this estate at this time haue all tryed the Kings Maiesties grace in their seuerall particulars in that notwithstanding they haue beene absent from the true ioyes of their Countrey and from the affaires in hand they may
for though Darius could not get the Grecians to eate their dead Fathers for any golde nor the Indians to burne theirs for any iron because of the contrarieties of their vses in both yet assure I my selfe this Nation honours the King with so much zeale he is able to teach thē with so much skill embrace vs with so much affection especially if wee bee once vnited in indissoluble bounds as I knowe not any custome may be fit for them to leaue shall not be discontinued nor any new lawe to be put in vse to which the first day shall not finde them accordant Si fingere me putas istud salutemus They do many of them vnderstand what was Cyrus his counsell to leaue those mountaines Countries and descend into the plaines there with the times to change the manners as Tully writes to Atticus where as the seedes are like the plants the liues of men are like the countries There shal they best learne to obey where the King sits highest to rule there shall they heare him clearely where Ille regit dictis animos pector a mulcet For this deede done none shall need to looke backe into his conscience with affrightment For this name taken none shall need to vnderstand the Nation to be embased For this kingdome inlarged none shall finde their owne states impaired As touching vnion with others and their abbetments ye may there iudge of your aduices among those who haue learnedly and grauely refuted that fourth question of the booke intituled Vindictae contra tyrannos Wherein is discoursed whether one Prince may ioyne with the subiects of an other who take vpon them armes for defence of defending religion My purpose being to be short shall rather insinuate my zealous wish of home-combining then forraine vses the one naturall and politique the other politique alone if so much I aske your body but within your girdle your head couered onely with your hat your garment to be grauer then partie-coloured and offer you Fraunce and Spaine for examples limited by those bounds nature her selfe hath appointed vnto them the Montes Perrenaei the Sea the Alpes with the rest Nor is it constantly held that our name of Britans should bee deriued of Brutus rather some hold we are called Prittons of a word which signifies a Marte or Fayre of stuffe for which this whole Island as well al parts as any one part Wales and Cornwall as England and Scotland is in one kinde or other replenished Nor ought that worde of Marte seeme to haue lesse boundes then Ciuitas which as Aristotle writeth signifieth a whole Common wealth As for our priuate goods thogh I could answere Publica priuatis sunt anteponenda yet let the stories bee but searched how our forteine conquestes haue bene hindred by the opportunities the Scots haue taken in our absences and how iealousies haue onely made vs diuersely combine our selues they with Fraunce wee with the house of Burgondie they shall finde how likely it is that priuate mens marchandize may be lost in the wracke of the generall fleete Other obiections should I goe about to frame such as pride or curiositie might suggest vnto me as much as I haue heard should I endeuour to answere the necessary themes of some mens seeming wise I doubt much how I could swim from out their deluge Noahs Arke or Chawcers Trough being vnbuilt against such an inundation Steeples stand not vp here as in the drownd countries of our lowe neighbours There are no sea-markes appearing to direct no castles no forts no citties to protect hilles and mountaines are here ouerwhelmed and the solutions of these following would be the dissolution of the time spent about them and no resolution of any thing for the applying of Gods blessings to our vses Animo volenti nihil difficile while we say all will be subuerted the lawes ouerthrowne mens states taken away the nations honor lost and our dish well serued in sliced into a gallemawfrey ouerpeppered and salt buttered wee spread feares doubtes God grant not hatreds largely but discusse vpon inconueniences slowly If to forward accordes the debate of this question happen you will finde that neither the number of the Scottishmen forreiners from their countrey nor the ambition of the Nobles though by some thought to challenge antiquitie before ours neither the customes of the Nation differing from ours in whatsoeuer wil debarre this proceeding or not admit time and will for fitnesse The like said of our auncient statutes of the stories auncient of vs of our reasonable affections as wee now stand for our goods and I dare boldly say eyther their intendmēts lesse needfull or their applications more profitable or alterations more beneficial will make vs more enioy this mornings breakfast then all last weekes dyet For neither doth the King affect other then our goods or is himselfe vnable to iudge of them nor doubteth but that there ought much deliberation to bee taken in a cause so important much circumspection touching the proportioning out the particulars These reasons haue moued me seeing that the King is to be defended in his desire as a good father of the Common-wealth hath spared the bloud of our good countreymen turned ill hath incouraged the seruices of the well deseruing shewes himselfe wise in his gouernment louing in his affection and industriously carefull of the weale publike to take vpon me this license in writing this zeale to my countrey in perswading Which if it happen to mindes affected to let Lucilii pecus esse liberum qua velit pasci I hope with them mine endeuour shall finde fauour for the rest as it no waies becomes me to be vnciuill as Democrates was to Philip so if they shall thinke it rather an impotencie in me not to spare mine affection to this argument then in themselues to afflict me by whatsoeuer meanes their wisdomes are of force to giue themselues content and this being out and past from me and dislikte shall make me not like to passe out more to be submitted to censure To conclude long liue yee right honourable Citties keeping peace in you fiers from you and traffique with you so may you build your houses faire keepe them neate haue good store of money and bonds in your chestes your Prentices grow free your liueries Aldermand your wiues Ladies your children made Gentlefolkes and your Cittie commodities be exchanged into the Courtiers reuenewes as at this marriage if you will daunce you make the contract sure and till death depart For though they and you lye in one an other of your houses nay should they and you lye with one an other of your wiues and daughters beleeue me non concubitus sed consensus facit Matrimonium say the Ciuilians Marry them and make the bond holy and vnuiolable or expect no securitie that the grand-children in time to come shall alwaies proue comfortable to the old folkes Catullus Hymen ô Hymenaee Hymen adest ô Hymenaee Sir Philip Sidney God Hymen long your coupled ioyes maintaine FINIS